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But more often it is more reactive — "I want something, and I am entitled to get what I want, and if you thwart me it really makes me angry".
Q. Do you ever hear a song by Hank Williams or other songwriters you admire and think, "This is so good I should hang it up"? A. No, luckily my ego doesn't thwart me in that way.
I had to get to the scarf counter, and quickly, but I'd forgotten how many powdered women would try to thwart me, offering a dab of this perfume, a spritz of that eau de toilette.
Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend, How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost Defeat, thwart me?... Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
There are days when I'm exhausted and the world has gathered its forces to thwart me.
"It almost killed me, and you can see that even though I have lived in recovery for 10 years now, it still finds loads of fun, insidious ways to thwart me to this day".
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I used to think Kissinger was thwarting me.
Automated messages thwarted me: "This number is out of coverage area"; "The number you have called is not available".
But there's a problem: the broadcaster is the only one to have thwarted me so far – the BBC.
But there's a problem: The broadcaster is the only one to have thwarted me so far the BBC.
After vetoing my gun-ownership reasoning, Colorado kept thwarting me every time I tried to nail down another cause.
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